Published May 22, 2021, 12:15 PM
Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo T. Eleazar, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), directed on Saturday, May 22, the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) to identify and arrest the people behind the illegal selling of government-purchased vaccines for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
Eleazar’s order was based on the instruction of Interior Secretary Eduardo Año to look into the reports that some people are either directly selling the vaccines or selling the slots for the government’s vaccination program.
Based on the initial report, the vaccines or slots are being sold from P10,000 to P15,000 depending on the brand.
For the Love of Mother Earth: Break Up with Single-Use Plastics on Valentine’s Day 14.02.2021 - Quezon City, Philippines - EcoWaste Coalition
13 February 2021, Quezon City. A waste and pollution watchdog group has offered timely advice on Valentine’s Day to lovers of single-use plastics (SUPs): break up or perish.
The EcoWaste Coalition called on Filipinos from all walks of life to break up with SUPs as this toxic relationship with throw-away plastics is threatening the health of the ecosystems, especially the marine environment.
“We can live without SUPs, but we cannot live sans clean oceans where a big chunk of these disposable plastics, along with their chemical additives, gets dumped every minute,” said Patricia Nicdao, Policy Advocacy Officer, EcoWaste Coalition.
QUEZON CITY, Feb. 13 A waste and pollution watchdog group has offered a timely advice on Valentine’s Day to lovers of single-use plastics (SUPs): break up or perish.
The EcoWaste Coalition called on Filipinos from all walks of life to break up with SUPs as this toxic relationship with throw-away plastics is threatening the health of the ecosystems, especially the marine environment.
“We can live without SUPs, but we cannot live sans clean oceans where a big chunk of these disposable plastics, along with their chemical additives, gets dumped every minute,” said Patricia Nicdao, Policy Advocacy Officer, EcoWaste Coalition.
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In an interview with DZMM on Wednesday, Fr. Douglas Badong, parochial vicar of Quiapo Church, asked the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) to consider expanding the church capacity to 50% even just for the feast day.
“Kung may nakikinig na IATF, kahit sa Jan. 9 lang, medyo dagdagan [yung capacity]…sana maconsider lang mapayagan kahit 50 percent para mas marami po iyong ma-accomodate sa loob ng simbahan. Tinitiyak naman namin na merong social distancing sa loob (If there are any members of the IATF that is listening, I hope that you can consider, just on Jan. 9, to expand the church’s capacity to 50 percent so that we can accommodate more devotees inside the church. Rest assured that there will be social distancing inside the church),” Badong said.
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File photo December 28, 2020 ABOUT this time every year, many of us try to recollect personal and family experiences during the year which is about to end. It is also now that we renew resolutions and express hope and wishes for the coming year.
As has been our family tradition, our family, on my wife Mira’s side, usually meets for a Christmas lunch get-together. During our last big get-together, attendees consisted of representatives from 4 generations, ages ranging from 8 to 80.
But this year, we will have to do with a virtual reunion scheduled at 11 a.m., December 25 (Manila Time). We are expected to be joined by relatives from California, and Arizona.